Re: Re: How to create "special" DataObjects (myself, not in layer)?

> Thank You Antonio!
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> It works - at least partly :-) !
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> Kind regards
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> Peter
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>
>
> Antonio wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> Comments below.
>>
>> P.N. escribió:
>>> Hi Antonio,
>>>
>>> I'd guess this won't work, either. The name isn't fixed (it is
>>> project-dependent), it's not an Ant build file, what is produced (the
>>> config isn't even produced externally), and the XSL will most likely
>>> be interpreted by NB infrastructure - if I'm using a DataObject. OTOH,
>>> it should be possible to just edit the file in a "simple" editor,
>>> probably it might be possible to use some XML utilities, at least.
>>
>> You're probably right here.
>>
>>>
>>> There's also a non-XML multiview API, I'll use that.
>>>
>>> I've still got one problem with this: How do I load my data into an
>>> Editor/JEditorPane? Do I have instantiate an EditSupport?
>>
>> As far as I know (I don't know much, by the way) you can either:
>> - DataEditorSupport.create (default behaviour) [1]
>> - Create your own EditorSupport. [2]
>> - Create an object that implements OpenCookie and CloseCookie and use
>> that to open/close your own TopComponent. [3]
>>
>> ... and then add that to the getCookieSet() in the constructor of your
>> custom DataObject.
>>
>>>
>>> When creating WindowComponent in editor mode, I'm getting several bugs
>>> about singletons and restoring editors after restarting NetBeans, and
>>> my current approach is very "synthetic", i.e. windows system does not
>>> seem to be intended to be used this way ...
>>
>> There's another thread about singletons, but I don't think you really
>> want a singleton TopComponent for editing your file. You may want
>> different instances of your TopComponent (as different tabs of your
>> editor).
>>
>>>
>>> Could You probably point me to some doc
>>
>>
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>> [1]
>> http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-openide-loaders/org/openide/text/DataEditorSupport.html 
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>> http://bits.netbeans.org/download/6_0/javadoc/org-openide-text/org/openide/text/CloneableEditorSupport.html 
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>> [2]
>> http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=es&sa=N&cd=5&ct=rc#txuJ105FSvQ/trunk/projects/Db4oNBModuleSuite/Db4oNBModule/src/com/db4o/nb/db4ofiletype/Db4oEditorSupport.java&q=extends%20CloneableOpenSupport 
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>> [3]
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>> package net.antonioshome.netbeans.b.cookies;
>>
>> import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
>> import net.antonioshome.netbeans.b.BDataObject;
>> import net.antonioshome.netbeans.b.nodes.editor.tc.BTopComponent;
>> import org.openide.cookies.CloseCookie;
>> import org.openide.cookies.OpenCookie;
>>
>> public class BCookies
>> implements OpenCookie, CloseCookie {
>>
>> public BDataObject bdo;
>> private BTopComponent tc;
>>
>> public BCookies( BDataObject bdo )
>> {
>> this.bdo = bdo;
>> }
>>
>> public void open() {
>> SwingUtilities.invokeLater( new Runnable() { public void run() {
>> openInSwing(); } } );
>> }
>>
>> private void openInSwing()
>> {
>> if ( tc == null )
>> {
>> tc = new BTopComponent();
>> }
>> tc.show( this.bdo );
>> tc.open();
>> tc.requestActive();
>> }
>>
>> public boolean close() {
>> if ( tc.canClose() )
>> {
>> tc.close();
>> tc = null;
>> return true;
>> }
>> return false;
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
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